From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
x86@kernel.org, Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFE PATCH 2/2] rtc, add write functionality to sysfs
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:55:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5127DB2B.3030700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5127D884.6020701@linaro.org>
On 02/22/2013 03:43 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> On 02/14/2013 09:02 AM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>> /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/date and /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/time currently have
>> read-only access. This patch introduces write functionality which will
>> set the rtc time.
>>
>> Usage: echo YYYY-MM-DD > /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/date
>> echo HH:MM:SS > /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/time
>
> Why do we want to add a new interface here?
John,
I'm not adding a new interface. The current date/time interface only handles
read and I'm introducing write.
Sorry -- maybe my description was too short ...
P.
>
> thanks
> -john
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-22 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-14 17:02 [RFE PATCH 0/2] x86, rtc, ntp, Enable full rtc synchronization Prarit Bhargava
2013-02-14 17:02 ` [RFE PATCH 1/2] x86, rtc, ntp, Do full rtc synchronization with ntp Prarit Bhargava
2013-02-22 20:42 ` John Stultz
2013-02-24 17:12 ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-02-25 15:04 ` Alessandro Zummo
2013-02-14 17:02 ` [RFE PATCH 2/2] rtc, add write functionality to sysfs Prarit Bhargava
2013-02-22 20:43 ` John Stultz
2013-02-22 20:55 ` Prarit Bhargava [this message]
2013-02-22 21:05 ` John Stultz
2013-02-23 23:11 ` Alessandro Zummo
2013-02-24 17:03 ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-02-25 14:58 ` Alessandro Zummo
2013-02-28 14:50 ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-02-28 18:51 ` John Stultz
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